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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: January 13, 2005
- Total Downloads: 25,435
- Downloads last week: 10
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
In the modern blog-heavy, instant-news world, a good RSS reader is welcome on almost every desktop. ENewsBar is aimed at computer users who want the latest news without having to take the trouble to configure a full-blown reader. Once installed, the software creates a ticker at the top of the computer screen on which news headlines scroll past, a little like a CNN TV news screen. When a user hovers the mouse over the ticker, the headlines freeze, and actually clicking a headline pops up a Web browser window with the full article text. The application comes with more than a hundred preset news channels, but users can add just a single new custom feed, making it impractical for people who are heavy blog readers. It also uses a fairly large chunk of system memory to operate. In all, ENewsBar makes a good choice for computer users simply looking to have the latest news at their fingertips, but those who are looking to customize their info-gathering experience more deeply should probably look elsewhere.Publisher's description
From ENewsBar :Scrolling news ticker for your desktop. View news via your choice of category or keyword. Incorporates millions of continuously updated news articles from thousands of sources. Easily customize the speed and color of the ticker or have multiple tickers displayed, each with different content, speeds, and colors. Import any RSS or Atom feed: simply enter the URL to view. Version 3.05 features Blog with ENewsBlog: easily add any headline to your blog; Article Summaries: view summaries and related information; Games: play free games on EnewsBar; more categories, new sources: expanding news coverage.
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- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 11 votes
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1 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: ENewsBar 3.05
Pros: i like it
Cons: needs some improvements.
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10 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: ENewsBar 3.05
Pros: Very handy! As far as I can tell (after running numerous anti-spyware scans), it does not contain spyware, adware or malware, nor does it report back to the mother ship or generate pop-ups. Can be positioned at top or bottom of screen or as a free-floating desktop object. Takes up very little screen space and does not obstruct view of web content or currently running application(s). Can instantly be hidden or shown with one click. No noticable impact on system resources. Can be uninstalled cleanly through Windows add/remove programs utility. Content can be somewhat customized by selecting from a wide variety of catagories which are accessed by left-clicking the triangle icon on either end of the bar (or manually typing keywords in it's search box). Clicking on any scrolling headline instantly opens browser to full article. Compatible with IE6 and Firefox. I like it!
Cons: Every 4th headline is an advertising link however the ad links are shown in a different color so it's very easy to distinguish news headlines from ads. Of course it would be even better without any advertising but then the developer would have to charge $$$ for it.
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0 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: ENewsBar 3.05
"Crashes Explorer and only allows one custom feed"
Pros: It's pretty simple and easy. It doesn't take a whole lot of memory. It can't hurt to try it and see if it fits your needs.
Cons: When it launches, it crashes Internet Explorer. You can re-start explorer, but the crash alert button stays on the screen and won't go away. Also, it will only let you configure one custom feed. To top it off, it won't let you use a feed if the URL address is too long. Also, you can't change the default browser to open Mozilla instead of Explorer.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: ENewsBar 3.05
"A neat little program that is free"
Pros: I was impressed with all the ways you can customize this program. There are many topics for the stories as well.
It passed the spyware test using adware, hijack this etc.. the advertising is not distracting either.
Cons: I dont know if this is a con but I wanted to put this on my web site and I couldnt.
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Version: ENewsBar 3.05
Cons: TTNews is much better:
ttnews.googlepages.com/ttnews_en.rar
ttnews is smaller, easier. What is more, ttnews can act as a gmail notifier/writer. It also suport various scrolling mode (up/down/right/left, multi-line), it is free.
So use ttnews instead of enewsbar
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